241 Bag with Krista Hennebury. Saturday, May 10th 10-4 at a mystery location. Cost is 45$/members, 55$/non-members. We still have a few spots left, please email us to join in the fun and hold your spot. Remember that there will be cake!

There will be NO MAY SEW-IN this month. Regularly scheduled sew-ins will resume in June.

The Victoria Quilt Guild Show and Sale is coming up! May 2, 3, 4th at Pearkes Arena. Some of our members are also in the Victoria Guild so be sure to support them. We have an info table at the show as well, thank you to the volunteers running our table.

We are doing a pouch swap with the Fraser Valley Modern Quilt Guild. The signup for it is HERE. Rules are at the link. Ideas for poucheswill be are on our challenge page soon. Signup deadline is May 19th.

The International Quilt Festival has a call for entries for the Modern Showcase in Houston.

Miscellaneous:

Lisa is collecting empty plastic thread spools on behalf of WILD Arc (the SPCA Wild Animal Rescue). If you have some to share, please bring them for Lisa at our May meeting OR you can drop them off at most of the fabric stores.

We would like to feature 1-2 book reviews a month. If you have a new book you'd like to share with everyone, please email us for the guidelines.

we need a swap for the quilt show table: we need either one more person for Friday 4-6 or if one of the Saturday or Sunday people can swap their shift we would appreciate it! Please email us if you can accommodate this.

We now have all the people we need, but please stop by our table anyway and say hello!

there is another MQG Webinar, this one is Keys to a Successful Quilt Show, April 30th 6pm. Sign up was through the email you should have received (members only). Check here for lots of on-line MQG resources.

We're all back from the Easter long weekend so it's time to finish up the April meeting.

We had ANOTHER amazing meeting last Thursday at Satin Moon quilt shop. We set more records this month: largest MQG Victoria meeting ever (59 people), most new members signed up at a meeting (10 new members!), and the most modern quilters ever in Satin Moon at one time. Thank you everyone for coming, and to Linda for having us.

And because of that last one we started our meeting off with the big news that we are MOVING! The May meeting will be at Pearkes Recreation Centre, behind Tillicum Mall. We are sad to leave our first home at Satin Moon and we cannot thank Linda enough for all her hospitality and the support she has given us. We presented Linda with a card and flowers as well as a gift certificate to the Blue Fox as a small token of our appreciation.

From there we moved on to the business portion of the meeting, with reports and updates. (The announcements part of it will be in a separate blog post.)
At the halftime, we handed out bundles of Michael Miller challenge fabric. Thanks to Daria, Diane B., Chris, Kimberly, and Nicole for cutting up all the fabric and bundling it for us.

Thursday, 10 April 2014

SATURDAY, April 12th: guided tour of the Carole Sabiston exhibit at the Art Gallery of Greater Victoria. The gallery opens at 10am, our tour starts at 10:30. Admission is 11$/adults, 9$/seniors. Please meet in the front lobby. Our tour will be about an hour.

Via CAR: there is parking at the gallery as well as street parking surrounding the gallery.

Via BUS: from town, take the #11, #14 or #22 to Fort and Moss, then a short block on Moss. Ask the driver to point you in the right direction when you disembark.

NB: the exhibit closes at the end of April and this is our last tour. Come Saturday to see what all the excitement is about!

SUNDAY, April 13th: our second sew-in!!

Where: Pearkes Arena, Gardom Room, 3100 Tillicum Road

When: 11am-3pm

What to bring:

sewing machine or hand sewing

whatever project you're working on

an extension cord and a power bar if you have one

a lunch or snacks for yourself

10$ if you have not already paid. Please give this to Stacie.

The room is big enough that we can accommodate a few more people. Please EMAIL us if would like to come.

If you are coming to one of these events we will see you there, otherwise at our next meeting, Thursday April 17th, 7pm at Satin Moon!

UPCOMING EVENTS

May 16: Monthly meeting and sewing bee - we're going to have a race to complete blocks for a quilt for Cockrell House! Bring six 2.5" strips in SOLIDS, at least 14" long. Three in black, white or gray, and three in any colour.